20th Vienna Architecture Congress

Congress participants:
Wiel Arets / Richard Burdett / Petra Čeferin / David Chipperfield (tbc) / Jean-Louis Cohen / Peter Cook (tbc) / Irina Davidovici / Marco de Michelis / Nathalie de Vries / Roger Diener / Marc Dubois / Oliver Elser / Angelika Fitz / Anna Heringer / Jacques Herzog / Andreas Hild / Steven Holl / Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus / Elke Krasny / Rob Krier / Wilfried Kuehn / Anne Lacaton / Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani / Bart Lootsma / Peter Märkli / Karoline Mayer / Vedran Mimica / Akos Moravánszky / Maroje Mrduljaš / Shane O‘Toole / Juhani Pallasmaa / Wolf D. Prix / Bruno Reichlin / Sami Rintala / Ullrich Schwarz / Dietmar Steiner / Martin Steinmann / Stephan Trüby / Jean-Philippe Vassal / Georg Vrachliotis / Wilfried Wang / Ana Maria Zahariade / Mirko Zardini

The opening night covers the thematic range of the congress. A review of architecture history after 1950 with a focus on crisis as a permanent driving force for the architecture discourse is juxtaposed with a view of what architecture might achieve in the future and how the role of an architecture museum is defined in this context.

The panels of the two following days are structured in decades and discuss – closely following the historical references presented in the exhibition "In the End: Architecture" – the influences of the immediate past on the present and future of architecture, along with all the conflicts and misunderstandings that arise.

The congress will be held in English (with the exception of the German-language discussion in the panel „The 70s“).